Submission Guidelines

Submissions are welcome in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese, in electronic format complemented by a hard copy. Articles should be in the range of 4000 - 5000 words, with references formatted according to the MLA style with footnotes. The essay must be preceded by a 200-word abstract in English. Please note that submissions which do not conform to the MLA style with footnotes will NOT be considered for publication.

LITTERARIA PRAGENSIA

Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture is a peer-reviewed international academic journal listed in the ERIH Database (European Reference Index for the Humanities) of the European Science Foundation and the MLA Directory of Periodicals.

The journal emerged from the discussions about the directions in comparative literature, cultural studies and critical theory after the fall of the Iron Curtain. An important predecessor was the Časopis pro moderní filologii (Journal for Modern Philology), a major publication venue of the Prague Structuralist School (Prague Linguistic Circle) in the 1920s and 1930s. The principal aim of the new journal has been to establish and develop links between the legacy of Prague Structuralism and current poststructuralist trends. The first issue on “The Variety of Historicisms,” was published in cooperation with the scholars from the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) at Irvine and the University of California at Berkeley. The variety of topics discussed since includes “The Utopias of the New World,” “Romanticism and Cultural History,” “Shakespeare and Modern Commercial Culture,” “Reading in Ruins,” “Shakespeare’s Illyrias,” “Contemporary Poetics,” “Boundaries and Contact Zones,” “American Gothic,” “Contemporary Aboriginal Literature in America,” “Towards an New Aesthetics,” “Samuel Beckett: Textual Genesis and Reception,” “Ghosts, Spirits and Spectres,” “Scotland in Europe,” “Constructing Cultural Identities” and “Urban Spaces in Literature.” Our internationally distinguished contributors include Stephen Greenblatt, Marjorie Perloff, Augusto de Campos, Steve McCaffery, Jerome McGann, Sacvan Bercovitch, Natalie Zemon Davis, Tom Nairn, Murray Pittock, Aleida Assmann, and Nicholas Grene.

At present, only thematic issues are published and projects favouring interdisciplinary approaches are preferred. The peer-reviewing is double blind and the reviewers are from other academic institutions than Charles University, mostly from abroad.

First stage: Articles are evaluated by the journal's Chief-Editor, at least one of the journal Editors and (if applicable) by the Guest Editor(s) of the issue (all issues focus on a specific theme or thematic area). If they fail to meet the academic standards of the journal or if they do not comply with the formal requirements specified in the Submission Guidelines, they are returned to authors either for resubmission or with a statement of reasons for rejection.

Second stage: Anonymized articles are evaluated by two peer-reviewers who are specialists in the field, are affiliated with an internationally recognized university or other research institution and are not members of the publishing institution or of the Editorial/Advisory Boards of the journal. In case of a significant discrepancy in the peer-reviewers' evaluation a third reviewer is invited. Evaluation results are anonymized and communicated to authors who are asked to make required changes. Submissions classified as unpublishable even after substantial rewriting are rejected.